Chess in New Zealand

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2009 Grand Prix
NZCF Mar 09 Ratings
FIDE Jan 09 Ratings
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Here you can find information about the NZ Chess Federation, officials, title holders, and member clubs in the NZCF menu option. Other menu options have FIDE and NZCF ratings, regular events in NZ, information on the annual Grand Prix other NZ chess news, and correspondence chess. NZ games can be downloaded here. The NZCF is an associate member of the NZ Olympic Committee. This confirms the standing of chess as a sport, and not a hobby or recreation.

New to chess? - you can find the official rules here.

Information about the Chess Friends Trust - see here

Event organisers - please notify us about your events!
You can play for fun at Online chess or official international events at ICCF

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New Zealand Chess Federation

The 2009 Queenstown Chess Classic, incorporating the 116th NZ Chess Championship was held 15th - 24th January. You can find the results here: www.queenstownchess.com Anthony Ker won his 10th NZL Championship.

Olympians Russell Dive and John McDonald in action at the Gordon Hoskyn Memorial 2008 (photo Justin Davis)

Puchen Wang (right) in action in Hungary June 2008.

The 2009 Millennium Hotels Grand Prix starts with the NZ Championship in January. See the grand prix page for details.

See the news page for recent event news. Forthcoming events and entry forms available on the events page or the website www.newzealandchess.co.nz

Each two years NZ competes in the Chess Olympiad, the world team tournament for chess. Results (scores out of 56 and 42 unless noted):

Year	76	78	80	82	84	86	88	90	92	94	96	98	00	02	04	06	08
Open	27/52	29.5	26	28	29	30	30	29.5	27	27.5	25.5	26.5/52	26	27	26.5	24.5/52	18/44
Women									11	18	18	15.5/39	15	15	18	17.5/39	23.5/44


SIM Michael Freeman (left), IM Russell Dive (centre) and FM Scott Wastney (right) reminiscing about previous Olympiads (photos Justin Davis)	IM Antony Ker and IM Russell Dive at Kapiti 2008

Ratings and Titles

The January 2009 FIDE ratings have been released and are on the ratings page. GM Murray Chandler (2518) and IM Puchen Wang (2456) top the FIDE rating list for NZ.

The March 2009 NZCF active and full ratings are available for download on the ratings page. GM Murray Chandler tops the list at 2542.

SIM Mark Noble (2518), SIM Michael Freeman (2485) and IM John Barrance (2453) head the July 2009 ICCF list for correspondence chess.

SIM Michael Freeman (black) playing Stephen Taylor (white) in a rare live appearance at the Gordon Hoskyn Memorial 2008. Photo by Justin Davis.

The NZ Master Points have been updated as at December 2007.

New Zealand Correspondence Chess Association

Correspondence chess can now be played on a webserver, by email, or the traditional post. Officials and contacts for correspondence chess are available from this web site, plus the latest NZCCA and ICCF ratings, and links to crosstables and games of various events. See the correspondence page for details.

New Zealand Chess Magazine

Subscriptions to the 2009 publication are now due at NZD$28 for four issues. Contact the editor at alan_aldridge@paradise.net.nz or visit the website here.

Chess in Art

Part of a unique photo exhibition using chess, brought to you by Uzi Rapoport.

R.I.P. Robert James Fischer 9 Mar 1943 - 17 Jan 2008

A chess genius who brought many to the game

Aged 64, he completed a tour of the board of life

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